indiaUpdated: Aug 20, 2020 12:50 ISTThe Odisha police have arrested a 68-year-old British citizen running an orphanage in the state’s western district of Jharsuguda on charges of sexually abusing a minor boy in his shelter home. Police officials in Jharsuguda said John Patrick Bridge - who ran a child shelter home called Faith Outreach in the Cox Colony area of the town, where he provided education to the tribal students - was arrested following a complaint by a minor tribal boy about Bridge sexually abusing him. Bridge, along with his wife Delphine, started Faith Outreach 25 years ago in Jharsuguda to provide education to the tribal students. Officials of Faith Outreach did not comment over the arrest of Bridge. This is the second such incident of abuse of minor children in Odisha in the last two years.

Source: Hindustan Times August 20, 2020 07:20 UTC